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Using Humor to Fuel the Success of Your Organization

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Guest post by Jamie Anderson & George Gabor Burt: In business situations in which collaboration is an important driver of organizational success, lacking a sense of community can be a formidable barrier to delivering results. Jamie Anderson’s TED Talk “What is Success, Really?” May the farce be with you. www.gaborgeorgeburt.com.

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How Pragmatic Leaders Can Transform Stuck Organizations

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Bacharach : A stuck organization is one that might meet conventional measures of success but it is not necessarily thriving. There are two primary reasons why organizations get stuck. There is so much going on that these organizations have a difficult time setting a path and moving forward in a coherent, organized fashion.

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What a Success Plan Is (and Isn’t)

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They come to the workplace every day and invest their significant gifts and talents in an effort to help you and your organization reach an agree upon goal. Their success is your success. So, it makes sense that we as leaders would want to create a success plan for our people. But first, we have to define success.

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A Succession Planning Template

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Succession planning is critical in order to ensure the long-term success of any organization. See my latest post over at About.com Management and Leadership for a template that contains all of the most common data elements of a good succession plan. succession plan succession planning template'

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Active Listening: the Key to Leadership Success

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If you start with active listening as leader you can determine who understands the mission the best, who is most capable of success and what kind of support is required for a positive outcome. Effective listening skills, make it possible to select leadership and those responsible for success. One week later, LED lighting was installed.

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10 Succession Planning Best Practices

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There’s more to succession planning than coming up with lists of candidates for important positions on the back of a cocktail napkin. I’ve been studying succession planning best practices for years. Take a “pipeline” approach to development , with the identification and development of talent at ALL levels of the organization.

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Why Being an Ethical Leader Can Help Your Organization

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Research on engagement shows that high levels of employee engagement to be strongly associated with successful results. Successful ethical leaders do a great job at conveying empathy. This partly explains their success—whether defined in financial or non-financial ways. Ethical leaders pay close attention to engagement.

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